Forward outside impact compression
Side impact compression
Enemy decentralisation manipulation and extraction and the employment of tactical control and restraint is enhanced by tactical edges and advantages.
Knowing how to interfere with an aggressor’s visual and mental focus enhances the employment of CQC actions by slowing down the enemies expedient action and even causing stalling. The employment of tactics and skills to cause autonomic nervous system confusion or overload and as such reactions provide openings and opportunities to apply primary skills.
When neutralising formidable aggressors, tactics to mask threat neutralisation intentions or cause enemy disruption or distraction are very important.
The mind follows pain and using short sharp shock contact will encourage an immediate autonomic reaction or deliberate response to move away from and alleviate the effects of the sharp contact.
By employing such tactics and skills that are distractive and invoke autonomic reactions or deliberate responsive skills causes the aggressors focus to be change to the immediate point of contact and not on your required quadrant or extremity of intended targeting.
Knowledge of the autonomic nervous system and the reactionary outcomes of short sharp contact combined with an understanding of anatomy and body mechanics in relation to CQC/MSD and C&R are essential tradecraft practices to maximise objective achievement against formidable foes.
Short sharp shock, pain compliance with the arch or edge of sole of a solid combat boot to delicate targets of the lower leg will change an aggressor’s focus immediately.
Combine such targeting of sensitive nerve endings and close to the surface bone targets of extremities with sharp edged shock contact combined with secondary leverage loading of a joint and an offender can be rapidly decentralised.
Knowledge of thought pattern and deliberate intended or initiated actions interruption and interference as part of maintaining or regaining control are primary skills employments options as well as contingency options to deal with changes in threat or situation including threat escalation.
In tactical detainee handling employment of control and restraint application aid techniques (RAATS) targeting shocking and joint loading and pressing are primary tradecraft practices.
Bare feet or soft soled shoes often do not achieve the effects of good hard soled combat boots sharp shock distractive impact contact.
As we say in CQC, bare feet are for bathing, boots are for CQC.
Often in training enemy pers may resist by loading up and forcing outwards their lower leg to make loading leverage difficult.
This can easily be overcome by angled employment of a good sharp edge of a combat boot or changing the point of contact from the side to the front or rear of the joint.
Combined shock target contact impact and joint loading compression of delicate targets like the Achilles tendon will invoke sharp shock pain reaction and as such initiate intended movement.
Outside rear contact impact and compression of the ankle joint and Achilles tendon.
Having a thorough knowledge of anatomy in the medical aspects of CQC in relation to close quarters combat military self-defence and defensive tactics will enhance objective achievement.
